The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (Paperback)
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Description
The classic, award-winning history of the cornerstone of American democracy, updated throughout and including a new chapter on voting rights since 2000.
About the Author
Alexander Keyssar is the Matthew W. Stirling, Jr., Professor of History and Social Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. His 1986 book, Out of Work, was awarded three scholarly prizes, and his book, The Right to Vote, was named the best book in U.S. history by both the American Historical Association and the Historical Society; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
